3 Steps Might Help Stop MRSA's Spread

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I have been trying to get these 'experts' to look at our products for several years. It is a methodology that is passive for the staff, cheap for the hospitals, and requires very little work. And yet, it is capable of inhibiting bacteria growth, such as MRSA, for months after application. it has the potential to save thousands of lives, and millions of dollars in added hospitalizations. This has been proven in hospital studies by third party labs. The problem seems to be the 'cost reimbursement' model of payment. There is no incentive to solve the problem because of potentially reduced income. Sounds crazy, doesn't it. I would love to hear another answer that makes sense. The US government is spending millions of dollars looking for what we have but, they won't look at us. We are an American company selling American products to save Amer
If I had the money spent on studies of 'hand washing', I could treat 100 hospitals. If there is anyone interested in investigating this claim, contact me anytime.

John Gildersleeve of FL 6:11PM September 12, 2012

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Epnzvpuw of CA 12:33AM July 15, 2009

The media has to make a campaign regarding hands hygine, there are campaign nation wide about cancer, HIV and other medical contion. Hand hygiene affect everybody, I belive if the public starting listening about hygiene from radio, TV, the goverment local and national. Europe is more avanced because all politic and important figures have became actively participant on those program associated to hand hygiene.

armando sancho-rafi of FL 12:06PM April 06, 2009

Fifty-eight percent of healthcare workers, who frequent hand washers, were said to develop dermatitis. Those who washed their hands more than 10 times a day were the most likely to develop this skin condition.
According to a study conducted by Dr. Elaine Larson of Columbia University School of Nursing, hand washing with soap alters a hand's pH leading to skin damage. Although dry hands do not have statistically significant differences in microbial counts, they are more likely to harbour pathogens. Larson's study found that dry nurses' hands were twice as likely to be colonized by bacteria.
Most bacteria on our skin are harmless unless they cross the protective barrier created by the skin. If skin becomes cracked or punctured using a needle or begins to bleed because it is too dry, this increases the risk of bacteria crossing into the body and causing an infection. These risks are of course higher for those who wash or scrub their hands a great deal.
Though washing with soap will eliminate most of the hand's bacteria colonies, some pathogens with a genetic pre-disposition to resist the soap's antibiotic properties will survive. When these resistant bacteria divide, they pass their resistance on, creating entire colonies of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
I still believe we must start thinking of why and how nurses or doctors could reduce introducing these bacteria into the skin and blood stream.
Encouraging companies to develop more equipment to monitor hand washing is likely increase cost and also infection rate because these equipments will soon be colonized with bacteria.

Dr Kadiyali M Srivatsa 10:08AM March 21, 2009